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| Iraq |
| Terrs wound Tal Afar mayor |
| 2006-01-28 |
| BAGHDAD - The mayor of the restive northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar was wounded on Saturday when rebels attacked his office, security officials said. Najim Abdullah, the mayor of Tal Afar, was wounded when rebels fired mortars at his office, a police officer from Tal Afar said. “Insurgents fired four mortars which landed on the office of the mayor and wounded him,” the officer said. The attack came after a US commander declared Friday a “fragile victory” in the town, four months after a US-led military operation was carried out to break the hold of terror network Al-Qaeda and other insurgents in the city. In a press conference last week, US military spokesman Major General Lynch distributed to reporters a letter from Abdullah thanking the US military for clearing the town of insurgents. |
| Posted by:Steve White |